Pixcil

Simple pixel art editor with (almost) infinite canvas.

Online editors & editor extensions:

• GitHub Pages (PWA)
• VSCode Extension

Features

• Simple and intuitive UI
• (Almost) infinite canvas
  • The center frame region is exported as the final image
  • You can make use of the blank space as a temporary working buffer, color palette, etc
  • If settings are enabled, the continuous vertical frames are treated as layers and the successive horizontal frames are regarded as animation frames
• Support PNG file format
  • Created images are saved as PNG files (with additional metadata)
  • You can load existing PNG files and use Pixcil as a dot-by-dot PNG file editor

How to build

Web

You can use Cargo to build Pixcil.

// Build.
$ git clone https://github.com/sile/pixcil.git
$ cd pixcil
$ cargo build --release --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
$ ls target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/pixcil.wasm

// Start an HTTP server and visit the root page in your browser.
$ cd web/
$ start-your-favorite-http-server